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Explore the features of tine and disc cultivators for shallow tillage, deep cultivation and subsoiling, for creating fine seedbeds to encourage seed germination, power- and ground-driven rotary cultivators for straw, stubble and crop residue incorporation and to cut crop establishment costs.

Advice and tips

CULTIVATORS

Tips for picking the best cultivator wearing metal

Replacing cultivator legs, wings and points can be a depressingly regular and ruinously expensive pastime for those working in the nation’s most abrasive soils. But instead of hunting around for…

CULTIVATORS

6 ways to improve autumn soil cultivation regimes

Many operators can be guilty of pulling the cultivator out the shed, heading to the field and cracking on with ground work, with the only parameter of success the sight…

CULTIVATORS

How, why and when to mole drain

Soggy fields, ruts deeper than your wellies and bubbling water from broken drains are all telltale signs your field drainage could do with a boost. It’s only in a wet…

EVENTS

Latest high-speed disc cultivators set to work at Tillage-Live

Designed primarily for shallow cultivation of stubbles, the short disc cultivator, has become an increasingly popular farming tool – and so the makes, models, features and options available have multiplied. Underlining their appeal,…

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Case studies

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Custom cultivator towed by steel rope transforms steep fields

Few things irk John Roberts more than unproductive farmland, even when it’s clinging to a precipitous hillside. But having flipped a tractor and rolled five times while trying to improve…

CULTIVATORS

Home-built 6m straw rake saves Northants farmer £10k

Having forked out for a 3m Claydon Evolution drill, Northamptonshire farmer Joe Brodie didn’t fancy the extra expense of buying a new straw rake to complete the setup. So he…

CULTIVATORS

Versatile Guttler cultivator-cum-drill works for Suffolk farm

Dismal weather and claggy soil conditions last autumn left Richard Ling hunting around for a drill that was light footed enough to get crops off to a respectable start. The…

CULTIVATORS

How Essex farmer adapted one cultivator to do four jobs

Armed with an ageing Vaderstad Carrier and yard full of scavenged parts, Andrew Metson has created a multi-use tillage tool that can also double up as a seeder. Originally purchased…

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Community

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2025: John Roberts' steep land cultivator

John Roberts won third place in our intermediate category. Not to be beaten by a seemingly unfarmable gradient, the Powys hill farmer assembled this heavy-duty steep land cultivator. The 3m-wide…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2024: Andrew Metson’s Vaderstad Carrier

By treating his 24-year-old 5m Vaderstad Carrier to a series of upgrades, Andrew Metson has created a multi-use cultivator that can double up as a cover crop drill. In its…

WORKSHOP SKILLS

Inventions Comp 2021: Craig Peddie’s high-speed Seedtilla

Craig Peddie’s Seedtilla The 5m hydraulic folding Seedtilla is Craig Peddie’s answer to high-speed shallow cultivations. Built during the spring lockdown to fill the void of his drastically curtailed social…

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Insights

CULTIVATORS

How strip-cultivating power tillers can offer cost savings

Does it really make sense to cultivate where only weeds are going to grow? Or create a soil structure vulnerable to a period of heavy rain just as the field…

MACHINERY

Buyer's guide: 7 UK-made mole plough options and prices

Even the fanciest field drainage system relies on a periodic pass with a mole plough to keep it performing at its best. Never is this more apparent than a wet…

CULTIVATORS

Chain-linked disc harrows offer speedy stubble management

Chain-linked disc cultivators have yet to take off in the UK, but their simplicity, moderate power requirement and ability to incorporate stubbles at high speeds could change that. The versatility…

CULTIVATORS

Side-shift linkage options deliver pinpoint crop weeding

Razor-sharp RTK guidance systems have nailed the art of driving tractors in arrow-straight lines, but they can’t deal with the inevitable wandering of implements on undulating ground and in changeable…

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News

CULTIVATORS

Weaving debuts 4-6m Raptor high-speed trailed cultivator

Armed with multiple rows of discs and legs, the Raptor from Weaving Machinery is geared up for high-output seed-bed creation. As the first trailed combination cultivator in the Worcestershire maker’s…

CULTIVATORS

Cereals 2026: Charter Agri debuts cheap Ilgi cultivators

After returning from a 25-year stint in Poland running a John Deere, JCB and Spearhead dealership alongside a contract farming operation, Robin Charter has set up a machinery import and…

CULTIVATORS

Cereals 2026: Top-Tilth cultivator gets aggressive discs

A new iteration of Grange’s Top-Tilth cultivator sees the original single bank of wavy discs replaced by two rows of trash-churning concave versions. These add about 500kg to the total…

CULTIVATORS

Cereals 2026: 3m Cousins Switchblade for 150hp tractors

To cater for those with smaller tractors or an interest in moving less soil, Cousins of Emneth has launched the Switchblade. This uses the same chassis as the heavier-duty Patriot,…

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Test and reviews

MACHINERY

Spirit fertiliser and seed into place

Growers in Scotland who like to put down some fertiliser with their cereal seed will welcome the  the Spirit Next System Disc Combo (SDC). Using standard components throughout, the SDC…

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Video

MACHINERY

Video: At the Auctions - Rainthorpe Farms sale

Farmers arrived from all corners of the country to see 375 lots get knocked down at one of the largest arable estates in recent years. Farmers Weekly was on hand…

ARABLE

Video: Grower cuts fuel costs as new drill hits blackgrass

The need to slash soaring fuel costs while tackling blackgrass at the same time has led to a wholesale change in establishment system on one Leicestershire estate. Farming 1,130ha of…

Tillage Event 2009

The two Tillage 2009 events take place at Down Ampney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 15 September and Kelso, Roxburghshire on 1 October. Both events offer farmers a great chance to see the latest…

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